Frank arrives at Super­cuts after hours, des­per­ate to see Vicky, despite know­ing it’s closed. With his Jeep on fumes and feel­ing the pres­sure of the moment, he runs into a strip mall. Out­side, kids skate­board while he fran­ti­cal­ly knocks on the locked door. Vicky ini­tial­ly ignores him, sug­gest­ing he return in the morn­ing. Frank insists he needs to speak with her—there’s some­thing seri­ous regard­ing Mag­gie that he must explain. Despite her cor­po­rate pol­i­cy adher­ence, Frank reveals urgency, admit­ting he can’t go home and needs help, which final­ly grabs her atten­tion.

As skate­board­ers start to pay atten­tion to the com­mo­tion, Frank reas­sures them he isn’t in need of police involve­ment, hav­ing already spo­ken to his sis­ter who is safe with Abi­gail at a hotel. He appeals to Vicky by show­ing her a hard dri­ve, promis­ing that once she hears what’s on it, things will make sense. Intrigued, Vicky unwinds from her aloof­ness, using her keys to let him in while secur­ing the salon behind him. Their vin­tage com­put­er is slow, but he con­nects the hard dri­ve and opens a file filled with cryp­tic names lead­ing to an audio con­ver­sa­tion.

The first record­ing that plays reveals a dis­cus­sion between Aidan, Mag­gie, and oth­ers regard­ing a struc­tured rela­tion­ship plan. Con­fu­sion quick­ly sets in as Vicky real­izes the impli­ca­tions of the con­tent they are lis­ten­ing to, par­tic­u­lar­ly regard­ing Aidan’s con­nec­tion to Mag­gie. As they sift through the record­ings, Frank reveals a com­plex web of inter­per­son­al rela­tion­ships and emo­tion­al strug­gle inter­twined with secre­cy. Vicky push­es Frank for expla­na­tions, urg­ing him to pro­vide con­text, par­tic­u­lar­ly about the tumul­tuous dynam­ics hint­ed with­in the tapes.

Their ses­sion is tense, leav­ing both char­ac­ters on edge, with Frank promis­ing to divulge every­thing soon. The chap­ter high­lights intense emo­tions and the weight of the com­pli­cat­ed rela­tion­ships as they dig deep­er into the hid­den con­ver­sa­tions that threat­en to unrav­el mul­ti­ple lives.